Market
Definition of Market
Mar´ket | n. | 1. | A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of buying and selling (as cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week; a farmers' market. | | 2. | A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place where provisions are sold. | | 3. | An opportunity for selling or buying anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; as, to find a market for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in that region; India is a market for English goods; there are none for sale on the market; the best price on the market. | | 4. | Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market. | | 5. | The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.What is a manIf his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? - Shak. | | 6. | (Eng. Law) The privelege granted to a town of having a public market. | | 7. | A specified group of potential buyers, or a region in which goods may be sold; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; as, the under-30 market; the New Jersey market.| Market cross | | a cross set up where a market is held. - Shak. |
| | v. i. | 1. | To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods. | | v. t. | 1. | To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as, most of the farmes have marketed their crops. |
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